ED Attaches 12 Properties in OM India Money-Laundering Probe

Overview

• The Enforcement Directorate provisionally attached 12 immovable assets linked to Operation Mercy India Foundation, with a book value of about ₹3.58 crore and an estimated market value near ₹15 crore.
• The move follows a Telangana CID case alleging diversion of roughly ₹296.6 crore by Joseph D’Souza, Josh Lawrence D’Souza and others through OM India entities funded by networks including the Dalit Freedom Network in the US, Canada and the UK.
• Investigators say sponsorship records were manipulated by assigning multiple or changing student codes and altering personal details to inflate foreign donor inflows.
• Authorities report that Good Shepherd Schools collected regular fees despite claiming full sponsorships and routed Right to Education and scholarship reimbursements to head-office accounts instead of beneficiaries.
• The ED cites allegations of misrepresenting students as “joginis” to solicit higher donations, notes seizures of documents and devices, and is probing continued foreign fund flows via OM Books Foundation after FCRA non-renewals and account freezes.